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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosParaguayTürkiyePalestinian Territories
2735,36665,0202,996
2745,47365,9493,075
2755,57966,8693,155
2765,68367,7283,235
2785,78668,5413,315
2795,88669,3663,396
2805,98470,2243,478
2816,08071,1063,559
2826,17371,9923,642
2836,26472,9093,727
2856,35273,9223,817
2866,43875,0543,907
2876,52276,1643,997
2886,60577,1414,088
2896,68878,1384,178
2906,76979,1994,269
2916,85080,2624,359
2916,93081,3504,451
2927,01282,4124,533
2937,09583,5354,615
2947,17984,7374,715
2947,26385,5644,820
2957,34886,3464,930
2957,43287,2015,042

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Türkiye

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
  • 1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
  • 182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Paraguay, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.